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Published in final edited form as: Nature. 2010 Nov 4;468(7320):122. doi: 10.1038/nature09562

RETRACTION

PMCID: PMC4379483  NIHMSID: NIHMS675216  PMID: 21048767

The large–conductance Ca21–activated K+ channel is essential for innate immunity

Jatinder Ahluwalia, Andrew Tinker, Lucie H. Clapp, Michael R. Duchen, Andrey Y. Abramov, Simon Pope, Muriel Nobles & Anthony W. Segal

The authors wish to retract this Letter after the report of an inability to reproduce their results1, later confirmed by another2. The studies the authors then conducted led to an internal investigation by University College London, please see the accompanying Supplementary Information for details. The retraction has not been signed by Jatinder Ahluwalia.

Supplementary Information is linked to the online version of the paper at www.nature.com/nature.

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